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After graduating from Queens' College, University of Cambridge with a first-class degree in English, he spent some time teaching at Stowe, before becoming a full-time writer. He was interested in hunting, flying, hawking and fishing. He was an intensely-involved naturalist.
White is most famous for writing The Once and Future King, a sequence of novels that retell Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'ArthurLe Morte d'Arthur The Death of Arthur —the title is actually spelled as Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in many many modern editions—is Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of some French and English Arthurian romances. It was first published i, reinterpreting the legend of King ArthurKing Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Britain. He is the central character in Arthurian legends (known as the Matter of Britain), although there is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually existed and in the ea. The sequence includes:
The Broadway musical Camelot was based on The Once and Future King.
White wrote many other books, some under a pseudonym. They include a children's book, Mistress Masham's Repose, in which a young girl discovers a group of Lilliputians (the tiny people in Swift'sJonathan Swift ( November 30, 1667 October 19, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer and satirist. Jonathan Swift was born, after his father had been dead for seven months, to an English mother, and educated by his Uncle Godwin. After a not very successful care Gulliver's TravelsGulliver's Travels ( 1726/ 1735) is a work of fiction pseudonymously authored by the British satirist Jonathan Swift. The first edition was published in 1726 with major changes by the publisher, since he was afraid the book in its original version would o) living near her house. Also for children was The Master, set on RockallRockall is a small, rocky island in the North Atlantic but is probably better known as one of the British Sea Areas named in the Shipping Forecast broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Its status is disputed, being claimed by the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland,. Other works include The Goshawk, an account of taming a hawk; The Godstone and the Blackymor, a travel book set in Ireland; England have my bones, an historical novel; and The Age of Scandal and The Scandalmonger, collections of essays on 18th century England.
He died aboard ship in Piraeus ( Athens, Greece) while returning home from his American lecture tour.
More information can be found in Sylvia Townsend Warner's excellent biography, TH White.
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